Select fables of Esop and other fabulists : In three books. Containing, I. Fables from the ancients. II. Fables from the moderns. III. Original fables newly invented. By Robert Dodsley. [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost].
| Author/creator | Aesop |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | A new edition. |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786] |
| Description | iv, 1 unnumbered page, 6-228[i.e., 6-226], 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered pageleaf of plates : illustrations ; 12⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Bachet, Claude Gaspard, Sieur de Méziriac, 1581-1638, author. |
| Other author/creator | Shenstone, William, 1714-1763 author. |
| Other author/creator | Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764 |
| Other author/creator | Aesop. |
| Other author/creator | Shenstone, William, 1714-1763. |
| Other author/creator | Bachet, Claude-Gaspard, 1581-1638. |
| Other author/creator | Crukshank, Joseph, 1746?-1836, printer. |
| Other author/creator | Thackara, James, 1767-1848 engraver. |
| General note | The morals are given in the indices, which are by William Shenstone. |
| General note | Error in paging: p. 205 and 206 omitted from paging. |
| General note | Frontispiece signed: Jas. Thackara. |
| General note | "A new life of Esop."--p. [5]-35, translated from the French of Claude Gaspard Bachet. |
| General note | "An essay on fable. Introduction."--p. [36]-53. |
| General note | Bookseller's advertisement, [2] p. at end. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from Library of Congress. |
| References | Evans, 19455 |
| References | Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 192 |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, W6763. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile literature 1786. |
| Genre/form | Booksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia. |
| Other title | Select fables of Esop and other fabulists. |
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